![]() I played the piano at the music school and I also play the flute, pipes and Jew’s harp in addition to the bagpipes. If you had your life again, what instrument would you play? This music suits me and that is why I continued my studies at a university. Maybe also the fact that there is, on the whole, something called traditional music, and it is possible to learn that. While in high school we had a Folk Club where we would hang out and play songs by Nirvana on the guitar, i.e. My father, uncle, grandfather, aunts - everyone sings or plays an instrument. ![]() My family, thanks to them I simply have this kind of blood in my veins that inevitably takes you to music. Name three, non-piping-related musical influences: When someone already plays the bagpipes, it is wonderful and when you see the sparkle in their eyes and interest in the thing in their heart, that’s the bagpipe player worth admiring. I went to camps and to the university, ordered myself an instrument made by a master and just played and played and researched and played again. I started to research what instrument it was and where I could study it. #Female bagpipe player tv#It would be nice to answer here that “my grandfather was a bagpipe player…”, but the picture isn’t as romantic as that, although my grandfather did play the accordion.Įverything began when, as a teenager, I saw a female bagpipe player on TV in the semi-finals for Estonian Eurovision contest, and everything else ![]() I have thought of getting myself bagpipes from other countries as well, and being young it seems I still have time … What led you to take up piping? What bagpipes do you play?Īs I am an Estonian I only play Estonian bagpipes. A champion of the torupil, the Estonian bagpipe, she is a charismatic teacher, performer and recording artist, most recently releasing an album with the Torupilli Jussi Trio. McGregor stepped back out to the street, did a quick bow for them, and hustled home.Cätlin Mägi is a leading figure in Estonian piping. Across the street, the apartment dwellers of Ocean Towers, clapped and cheered from their balconies. ’Twas grace that brought us safe thus far, and grace will lead us home. Through many dangers, toils and snares, we have already come. Just as the sun started to dip, he took a deep breath and started to play. “Don’t worry, I’m six feet away!” she said, wearing a face mask, her eyes smiling but her mouth not visible. His neighbor, Theresa Karaniko, followed and stood behind him, listening to him play for the first time. On a recent night, McGregor bolted across traffic on Ocean Avenue and slipped into his playing space. “You can endure a lot of trauma, but if you have trauma without hope, you have despair.” “There’s a strong likelihood that someone needs to hear this song, at sunset,” he said. The night a group of Santa Monica firefighters pulled in on a firetruck, asked for a performance, and flashed their lights in gratitude. ![]() The night a woman told him, through a face mask, that her aunt had just died overseas, and because she couldn’t travel to attend her funeral, his song had given her solace. ![]() “I know lots of people are suffering,” McGregor said, “and it’s a funerary song, but also a song of rejoicing.”Įvery night, he said, there’s a magical moment. ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. He chose “Amazing Grace” because the song, especially on the bagpipe, captures the emotion of this uncertain time. ![]()
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